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Memento mori

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Those problems are because of the tobacco. Zyn packets et al are just nicotine, and nicotine itself has not been shown to be a carcinogen.

On 1 February 1871 Charles Darwin wrote about these publications to Joseph Hooker, and set out his own speculation that the original spark of life may have been in a "warm little p…

And that video game is called Gambonanza [1] [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3509230/Gambonanza/

> Makes you wonder why they never added any rng into chess, ya know, to keep the player base "engaged" arguably this is why Chess960 was created

as far as I understand it, turing completeness is a weaker property than combinatory completeness, which Craig's theorem is addressing. The nonexistence of a singleton combinatory …

Looking forward to hearing about how you're using Opus 4.5, from my experience and what I've heard from others, it's been able to overcome many obstacles that previous iterations s…

your score is the length of your two words plus the space

Formalization of many of the ideas from HoTT are currently happening in the Agda community. [1] It's out of my wheelhouse, so I don't know the exact motivations, but Agda is appare…

Earlier comments found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869093 From my brief reading of it, it seems like the interesting bit here is the development of the Hypercatalan n…

Have been using Suno over the last few iterations and can vouch for this; steering the final product with style tags is a lot better now and I can use more natural language rather …

I had one of these as a kid; the slow way it drew the graphics onto the screen [1] for a new activity was an aesthetic in itself, like a coloring book being drawn and colored in be…

moving around on the noise site, you can get it to resemble parts of loud pipes, especially at around 2:35 [1] with the repeated upward bits https://youtu.be/64liF2VuLxI?t=155

I'm also self published. I would rather a thousand people steal and read and interact with and talk about my work than to be able to eat selling it to a privileged few. The free so…

link does not work for me, discussion is here https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1fc98fu/confirm...

Programs like this and VCV Rack are great ways to get started on the road to building your own modular synthesizer [1]. Many of the modules in the program are based on real hardwar…

Thank you for taking the time to clean this up and release it. I've never played DD Poker, but have experienced the loss of other games when servers go down and the software stops …

> I'm wondering if aphantasia is merely the inability to induce sensory hallucinations at will. I have aphantasia and this is how I'd define it for myself. I have visual dreams and…

Studies have shown that GMs have better mental recall of actual board positions, but if you set the pieces randomly on the board in ways that may be illegal or nonsensical, their r…

https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth BespokeSynth takes the concept of a modular synthesizer and expands it so that the application is less just a synth and more a complete…

Relevant reading: What Are Mathematical Coincidences (and Why Does It Matter)? by Marc Lange [1] [1] https://philosophy.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/122/2013...

Interesting video from a pro Diplomacy player playing against multiple instances of Cicero and giving commentary during the game [1]. I can see how there would be people that obser…

A dated stereotype at this point. The latest versions of Dalle, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney etc. are much better at this. Generation of words (e.g. making signs that say specific …

I upvote things that I learned from or gave me a new perspective on. Reading the comment was a net positive use of my time. This can include comments I disagree with. Similarly, I …